This is a bipartisan issue. It's important to me for obvious reasons.

1 year ago today, we lost a brother, a friend, and a colleague, someone who made a great impact on my home State of Hawaii and this country. My friend, Congressman Mark Takai, was someone who lived his entire life with a full heart…

I was shocked to see the President drastically slashing funds for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program.

I am looking for someone who is going to be a real advocate for our compact friends to whom we have an obligation.

I am concluding that you no longer hold these kinds of discriminatory views with regard to women serving in the military and homosexuals in the military.

At some point in time, we have to make good on the promises and the commitments.

Thirty million dollars a year for compact impact assistance to states like Hawaii is woefully short of what we actually need.

I would like your commitment that you will support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's important duty to administer the Endangered Species Act to protect species in Hawaii and across the U.S.

today the Senate is considering the nomination of John K. Bush to the Sixth Circuit--someone who should have no place on the Federal bench. Mr. Bush is one of the most outspoken and blindly ideological judicial nominees I have seen in my…

Most importantly, emergency personnel will not be competing with commercial users for bandwidth.

In 2012, when Congress created FirstNet, we made an important commitment to public safety.

We also knew that these problems could be solved with a nationwide, interoperable public safety communication network.

The goal with this national state-of-the-art first responders network recognizes the need to have a national approach to addressing emergencies, but national is not just the continental United States.

Is that prohibitively expensive, or do you think you can get----

How worried are you about that?

Today, we are closer than ever to making that solution a reality.

I think one of the big differences is that they want coverage over water in addition to land.

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